The Reunion of Cupid and Psyche

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The Reunion of Cupid and Psyche

Switzerland, 1793
Paintings
Oil on panel
Panel: 13 7/8 × 15 3/4 in. (35.24 × 40.01 cm) Frame: 17 1/4 × 19 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (43.82 × 49.53 × 6.35 cm)
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (M.2000.179.30)
European Painting
Not currently on public view

Provenance

The artist, sold 1793 to; Jean-Isaac Thélusson (1758-1823), Geneva. Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924-2015), London, by 1980, sold 2002 to; LACMA

Bibliography

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  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
  • Laveissière, Sylvain, Paola Hoffman, Birgitta Sandström, et al. Bénigne Gagneraux (1765-1795), un pittore francese nella Roma di Pio VI (exh. cat.). Dijon: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1983
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